DIY Apartment: Electrical Tape Frames

One of the major things about living in a NYC apartment is that we have to decorate our home in impermanent ways without making everything look like a dorm room. One way we’ve been doing this is with an excessive use of black electrical tape. 🙂 About a month ago I put electrical tape chevrons on the door, and now I’ve used them for frames. The best part is, it peels right off and doesn’t leave any sticky gunk behind.

I first found the idea from Design Sponge. They used washi tape, but I didn’t have any so I decided to use the electrical tape. (I love washi tape, though. It’ so colorful and pretty! 🙂

Here’s what the map looked like before I added the frame.

The first thing I did was frame the map in one rectangle of tape. (You can see Sean’s artwork-in-progress above the door. The frame for that is a completely different story.) 🙂

Next I added an additional layer of tape outside the rectangle and measured in the same distance in on each side. (I used a very scientific measuring tool, as you can see.)

Then I connected all of the outer tape pieces with a diagonal strip. And that’s it! 🙂

A pretty good addition to the NYC apartment. 🙂